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RE: st: A comment on abbreviations
Last night I was wondering whether I could write a small -program- that
would let me run abbreviated code through Stata, such as the now
immortalized -prob f p w- and have Stata create a log or screen output
returning the fully expanded version -probit foreign weight price- (which I
could then paste into the mail to the list).
At first I sought refuge in the -e(cmdline)- returned by estimation
commands, but that one merely expands -probit- while still leaving -f w p-
untouched. Furthermore, it would work only for those commands that bother to
return -e(cmdline)-. So, as a challenge to the more seasoned programmers on
the list, is there a way to do it? If there is one, I could type my beloved
abbreviations while posting fully expanded commands to the list...
Martin
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